Here in this peace of Boleh-land, we’re indeed living in a very interesting place with interesting development at an interesting time.

It all started when the internal rifle within the Barisan Nasional coalition was further exposed in no other than the Parliament, led by some unhappy men.

Initially, Kalabakan MP Abdul Gapur Salleh has called on Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to reshuffle the Cabinet to give Sabahan MPs key ministerial posts by the end of the year.

He also asked for an increase of oil royalty from 5% to 20% so that the RM500mil allocation would be increased to RM2bil.

Now, it’s interesting to note that recently, the de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim said that if the People’s Coalition forms the federal government, Sabah will get up to 20% of royalties from oil and gas and timber, an interesting idea which was rejected by the Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman as merely a ploy to win the support of the people.

Subsequently, Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan joined the fray, by asking the Federal Government to attend to the state’s problems, saying "it is the only sensible thing to do".

To add more insult to the injury, PKR Sabah chief concluded that the discussion with BN MPs to cross over to PR as "very real".

Now, no thanks to the SIL’s who is very much well protected by the PM, he took a swipe at Pakatan Rakyat by writing it off as only a "public relations" exercise, and worse, referring the state government’s pig-breeding project and labeling it as "Project Khinzir Raksasa" P-K-R (giant pork project).

Let’s see in another few months down the road, the SIL is still credible enough to raise to the occasion on the opposite side and struts across the Parliament hall or merely hiding behind his mother’s skirttails.

As I said earlier, we’re indeed living in a very interesting place with interesting development at an interesting time.

We shall see.

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